Tension Between Iran And Not So Great Britain

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متجاوزين انگليسي به تهران منتقل شدند


نيروهاي انگليسي متجاوز به آب*هاي سرزميني ايران به تهران منتقل شدند.


15 نظامي انگليسي كه روز گذشته به خاطر عدم توجه به مرزهاي بين المللي و ورود غيرقانوني به آب*هاي سرزميني جمهوري اسلامي ايران، توسط مرزبانان كشورمان در محدوده شمال غربي دستگير شده بودند، ظهر امروز براي ارائه توضيحات نسبت به اين اقدام متجاوزانه خود به تهران منتقل شدند.

نظاميان ياد شده شامل 8 ملوان و 7 نفر از نيروهاي موسوم به "رويال مارينز" و از نيروهاي زيرمجموعه* ناو كورناوال هستند كه با تجهيزات كامل نظامي و دستگاههاي پيشرفته جغرافيايي، دستگير شدند كه در ميان اين نظاميان انگليسي، ناوي* زن نيز ديده مي*شود

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معاون ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح ایران از اعتراف نیروهای بازداشت شده انگلیسی به ورود غیر قانونی به محدوده آب های ایران در خلیج فارس خبر داده است.

علیرضا افشار، معاون فرهنگی و تبلیغات دفاعی ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح ایران با تائید بازداشت 15 ملوان تفنگدار دریایی بریتانیا گفته است که بازداشت شده ها تحت بازجویی قرار دارند.

آقای افشار بر آمادگی کامل ارتش ایران برای دفاع از کشور در صورت اقدام نظامی علیه ایران خبر داده و طی هشداری گفت که در صورتی که آمریکا و متحدانش "در محاسبه و تهاجم به ایران اشتباه کنند، قادر به کنترل ابعاد آن نخواهند بود."

دولت بریتانیا گفته است که هشت ملوان و هفت تفنگدار دريايی این کشور روز جمعه، 3 فروردین در هنگام گشت عادی خود در آب های عراق توسط نيروهای ايرانی بازداشت شدند. این کشور خواستار آزادی فوری اتباع خود شده است.

در مقابل ايران نسبت به "ورود غيرقانونی" اين افراد به آب های خود، به شدت اعتراض کرده است. محمد علی حسینی، سخنگوی وزارت خارجه ایران "ورود غیرقانونی و مداخله جویانه نیروهای انگلیسی به آب های جمهوری اسلامی را اقدامی مشکوک و بر خلاف مقررات و حقوق بین المللی" خوانده و آن را محکوم کرده است.

پیشتر سرتیپ عليرضا افشار درباره* دستگيری* نظامیان بریتانیایی در گفتگو با رادیو ایران گفته بود که*: "مدارک* مستدل* و مستندی* درباره* حضور اين* نيروها در محدوده* آب های* ايران* داريم*". او گفته است که برخلاف موارد پیشین، "بازداشت شدگان به تذکرات ما توجهی نکردند".

وی افزود که آنها "درباره اینکه در آب های ایران دستگیر شده اند، اعترافاتی داشته اند". به گفته آقای افشار، بازجويی* از دستگیرشدگان همچنان* ادامه* دارد و آنها کاملا سالم* هستند.

وزارت امور خارجه بریتانیا تا کنون دو بار سفیر ایران در لندن را احضار کرده و خواهان آزادی هر چه سریعتر اتباع خود شده است.

ایران نیز در غیاب سفیر بریتانیا در تهران، کاردار این کشور را به وزارت امور خارجه احضار کرده است.

آلمان نیز که ریاست دوره ای اتحادیه اروپا را به عهده دارد خواهان آزادی فوری اتباع بریتانیا شده است. فرانک والتر اشتاین مایر، وزیر امور خارجه آلمان به خبرنگاران گفت که 27 کشور عضو اتحادیه اروپا به زودی بیانیه ای در این باره صادر خواهند کرد.

نقشه منطقه عملیاتی ناو اچ ام اس کورنوال

تنش دیپلماتیک ایران با بریتانیا که متحد اصلی آمریکا به شمار می رود در زمانی رخ می دهد که شورای امنیت سازمان ملل متحد امشب درباره قطعنامه جدیدی برای اعمال تحریم های بیشتر علیه ایران تصمصم گیری می کند.

آمریکا و بریتانیا خواهان آن هستند که ایران فعالیت های غنی سازی اورانیوم خود را به حالت تعلیق در آورد، امری که با مخالفت ایران مواجه شده و این کشور می گوید که به هیج وجه با تعلیق فعلیت های اتمی خود موافقت نخواهد کرد.

در صورتی که اعضای شورای امنیت به توافق برسند، احتمال دارد تحریم های شدیدتری علیه ایران به اجرا گذاشته شود.

بريتانيايی های بازداشت شده تحت فرماندهی ناو اچ م اس کورنوال، قرار داشتند. اين ناو فرماندهی نيروهای ائتلاف بين المللی و عراقی را که در آب های عراق در شمال خليج فارس برای مبارزه با قاچاق به گشت زنی مشغول هستند، بر عهده دارد.

بريتانيا می گويد بازداشت شدگان در حالی که بازرسی معمول از يک کشتی تجاری را به پايان رسانده بودند، از سوی قایق های ايرانی محاصره و به سوی آب های ساحلی این کشور هدايت شدند.

در ژوئن سال 2004 نيز هشت ملوان و تفنگدار دريايی بريتانيايی در اروندرود بازداشت شدند اما پس از چهار روز در پی مذاکرات ديپلمات های بريتانيايی با مقامات ايران، آزاد و به سفارت بريتانيا در تهران تحويل داده شدند.

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TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran says the 15 British sailors and marines seized by Iran in the Persian Gulf have confessed to trespassing into Iranian territory, the semi-official FARS News Agency reported Saturday.

But the British Ministry of Defence would not confirm the report.

The British government said its request to communicate with the detained troops has not been granted by Iran.

Earlier Saturday, FARS reported that the sailors and marines were brought to Tehran to explain their "aggressive behavior."

The British Ministry of Defence said Friday the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy surrounded and seized the marines while they were conducting a routine inspection on a merchant vessel. They were then "escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters." (Location of incident)

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman on Saturday condemned the British government for attempting to cover up its "blunder" and said it should stop "putting blame on others," according to IRNA, the state-run Iranian news agency.

Hours after reports of the arrests surfaced, a flurry of diplomatic activity ensued.

Britain announced it had called Iran's ambassador for a meeting and demanded the immediate release of the marines while Iran announced on state-run TV that it had asked Britain's representative to Tehran to explain why the personnel had crossed into Iranian territory.

Iran waited until late Friday to release a statement. The report was aired on state-run TV and sourced Iranian foreign ministry officials. There was no mention of where the marines were being held or what would happen next, only that they were arrested for trespassing.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Friday her office was making clear it expected the personnel to be released immediately, along with "a full explanation of what happened." She was in England at the time.

A U.S. military official who monitors the region told CNN the marines stopped a vessel suspected of smuggling automobiles, and boarded it for an inspection. While the marines were on board, as many as six ships from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy showed up and claimed the British had entered Iranian waters.

A dispute ensued over whether the marines were on Iraqi or Iranian territorial waters, and the 15 were then seized and taken to Iran, along with the two small rigid hull inflatable boats they had used to get from their ship to the vessel, the U.S. military official said. The official insisted on anonymity because the incident did not involve the U.S. military.

Nick Lambert, commodore of the ship, said his marines were inside Iraqi territorial waters when they were arrested. There was no fighting and no use of weapons, he told a BBC pool reporter on the ship. "It was entirely peaceful."

The incident threatened to exacerbate the tension between Iran and much of the West on the eve of a U.N. Security Council vote to impose new sanctions on Iran. The world powers will meet Saturday to consider that next step in the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. (Full story)

There have been similar incidents in the past. In 2004, Iran stopped three British boats and seized eight sailors and six marines. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said at the time the three boats had crossed into Iran's territorial waters.

The detained servicemen appeared on Iranian television blindfolded.

They were released after Iran said it determined they had mistakenly crossed into Iran's waters.

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Iran: Sailors "confessed" to illegally entering Iran's waters


An Iranian military official said Saturday afternoon that the 15 detained British sailors "confessed" to illegally entering Iranian waters.

The sailors, taken at gunpoint Friday by Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Al Quds soldiers were captured intentionally and are to be used as bargaining chips to be used for the release of five Iranians who were arrested at the Iranian consul in Irbil, Iraq by US troops, an Iranian official told the daily paper Asharq al-Awsat on Saturday.

In addition, a senior Iranian military official said Saturday that the decision to capture the soldiers was made during a March 18 emergency meeting of the High Council for Security following a report by the Al-Quds contingent commander, Kassem Suleimani, to the Iranian chief of the armed forces, Maj.Gen. Hassan Firouz Abadi. In the report, according to Asharq al-Awsat, Suleimani warned Abadi that Al Quds and Revolutionary Guards' operations had become transparent to US and British intelligence following the arrest of a senior Al Quds officer and four of his deputies in Irbil.

According to the official, Iran was worried that its detained people would leak sensitive intelligence information.


Iran's semi-official news agency, Fars, reported that the 15 Britons have been transferred to the capital Teheran "to explain their aggressive action." There was no immediate official confirmation of the move.

The agency said the 15 included "some women." In Britain, officials told the Press Association news agency that at least one woman was among the group.

Navigational equipment on the seized British boats "show that they (sailors) were aware that they were operating in Iranian waters and Iranian border gurads fulfilled their responsibility," Fars quoted an unidentified official as saying.

Meanwhile, officials from Western countries expressed concern Saturday that Iran would engage in similar acts in the future in order to discourage the United Nation's Security Council from imposing further sanctions, reported Army Radio.

Iran had maintained Friday that the British sailors had entered Iranian territorial waters illegally; the United States Naval Forces Central Command (US Fifth Fleet) issued the following statement regarding the incident:

"At approximately 10:30 a.m. Iraqi time March 23, 15 British naval personnel, engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters in support of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1723 and the government of Iraq, were seized by Iranian naval vessels.

The boarding party had completed a successful inspection of a merchant ship when they andtheir two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters.

The British government is pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level and on the instructions of the British Foreign Secretary, the Iranian ambassador was summoned to the British Foreign Office. The British Government is demanding the immediate, unconditional and safe return of their people and equipment.

Royal Navy forces operate as part of Combined Task Force 158. CTF 158's mission is to maintain security and stability in Iraqi territorial waters and to protect the Iraqi oil terminals, under the UN mandate set out in the Security Council Resolutions on Iraq.

CTF 158 is currently commanded by Royal Navy Commodore Nick Lambert and operates as one of three coalition task forces in the Combined Maritime Forces under the leadership of Commander, US Naval Forces Central Command/US Fifth Fleet, Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff," the statement concluded.

Iranian state television said, however, that this was "not the first time that British military personnel during the occupation of Iraq have entered illegally into Iran's territorial waters," the state TV quoted a foreign ministry official as saying. He was not identified by name.

Earlier, the British government summoned the Iranian ambassador, Rasoul Movahedian, to the Foreign Office for a meeting, which a department spokesman described as "brisk but cordial."

During the meeting, Sir Peter Ricketts, the senior civil servant in the department, demanded "the safe return of our personnel and equipment," the spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity under department rules.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett demanded Teheran fully explain the detention, saying in a statement after Movahedian's summons that he "was left in no doubt that we want them back."

Iran later claimed that the British soldiers and marines have been "detained by Iran's border authorities for further investigation ... of the blatant aggression into Iranian territorial waters," the official also said.

Iran demanded an immediate explanation from London and "asked that this not happen again," the television said.

The foreign ministry conveyed Iran's "strong protest" to the diplomat, who was said to be the British charge d'affaires in the absence of a London ambassador to Teheran. The diplomat was also asked to "provide answer as soon as possible" from London.

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what is iran thinking
i am really surprised how litle the brits care

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you know if it is iranian water why dosent iran claim it and than deploy mines or somthing so no ship can enter that terrirtory this is bullshit for a foreighn country to enter your water and if you want to do somthing you might start a whole confrontation

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and this from someone who support occupation and aggression! mike you change party every single day

If you read news Emarat killed some month ago several iranian fishermen! it was a confrontation and kidnapping between Norway and Russia also some month ago over a ship! and so on all over world! so that is normal and no need for mines!

This time it isnt 2004! Different Administration! different Ideology!

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and this from someone who support occupation and aggression! mike you change party every single day

khoda ram kohene
i support the state of israel
i also support a palastinian state living side by side
and i will fight the palastinians as long as it takes until they recognize me and respect my right to excistance

remember israelis are willing to give land to palastinians land that you say have been occupied but the will not give it untill and only when there is a real chance for peace.

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EU demands Iran free seized British sailors
Mar 24, 2007

The European Union demanded the immediate release of 15 British navy personnel detained by Iran in the Persian Gulf, EU president Germany said yesterday.

"The Presidency of the Council of the European Union calls upon the Iranian Government to immediately release the 15 British seamen detained [Friday]," a statement issued by the German Foreign Ministry said. It said the German Embassy in Tehran had raised the matter with the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters ealier that Berlin had obtained official confirmation that the troops were under arrest for an alleged border violation.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair avoided reporters' questions about Iran on arrival in Berlin for ceremonies marking the EU's 50th anniversary. Iran says the sailors entered Iranian waters illegally while Britain says they were carrying out routine checks on shipping in Iraqi waters.

In Tehran, Iran's military said yesterday the British naval personnel had confessed to entering Iranian waters illegally. The semi-official Fars news agency said they had been transferred to Tehran to explain their "aggressive action," but this could not be confirmed. Fars also said the group included some women.

"These people are under investigation and have confessed they have violated the waters of the Islamic Republic," the ISNA news agency quoted a military official as saying.

Also yesterday, a British minister met mullahs' ambassador in London and demanded the release of the servicemen. Lord Triesman spent more than an hour with Rasoul Movahedian, demanding the safe return of the sailors.

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Iran escalates rhetoric over seized British sailors; Britain demands release

By: ALI AKBAR DAREINI - Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran claimed Saturday that 15 British sailors and marines had confessed to entering its waters in an act of "blatant aggression," an escalation of Tehran's rhetoric over the confrontation.

The British Foreign Office summoned Iran's ambassador for the second time in two days, saying an under-secretary had spent more than an hour in "frank and civil" talks demanding the safe return of the sailors and Royal Marines, and seeking assurances about their welfare and access to British consular officials.

Iran's top military official, Gen. Ali Reza Afshar, said the sailors and marines were moved to Tehran and under interrogation "confessed to illegal entry" and an "aggression into the Islamic Republic of Iran's waters." Afshar did not say what would happen to the sailors.


Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini accused the British of "violating the sovereign boundaries" of Iran, calling the entry a "blatant aggression."

He accused Britain of trying to cover up the incursion, saying it should "refrain from putting the blame on others."

The U.N. Security Council, meanwhile, unanimously voted to impose new sanctions against Iran for its refusal to stop enriching uranium -- a move intended to show Tehran that defiance over its nuclear program will leave it increasingly isolated.

British opposition lawmakers called on the government not to allow Iran to use the capture of the military personnel as a tool in the nuclear dispute.

"The United Kingdom will not be blackmailed. Iran has a choice: to act responsibly; or face greater isolation," said Menzies Campbell, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats.

But the British government appeared to be avoiding harsh language in its public statements as it continued to gather information about exactly what had happened and why.

The British sailors had just searched a merchant ship Friday morning when they and their two inflatable boats were intercepted by Iranian vessels near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway, U.S. and British officials said. The Iranians surrounded them and escorted them away at gunpoint.

Britain immediately demanded the return of the eight Royal Navy sailors and seven Royal Marines -- at least one of who was a woman -- and denied they had strayed into Iranian waters while searching for smugglers off Iraq's coast.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and the Ministry of Defense said the troops were in Iraqi waters when they were seized.

Iraq's military commander of the country's territorial waters, Brig. Gen. Hakim Jassim, told AP Television News that Iraqi fishermen had reported that the British boats were "in an area that is out of Iraqi control."

In June 2004, six British marines and two sailors were captured, then paraded blindfolded on Iranian television. They admitted they had entered Iranian waters illegally but were released unharmed after three days.

Iranian hard-liners have already called for the 15 Britons to be held until Iran wins concessions from the West.

Several conservative student groups urged the Iranian government not to release the sailors until five Iranians detained by U.S. forces in Iraq earlier this year are freed and U.N.'s new sanctions against Iran are canceled. Some 500 Iranian students gathered on the shore near where the soldiers were captured, shouting "Death to Britain" and "Death to America," the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

With tensions already running high, the United States has bolstered its naval forces in the Persian Gulf in a show of strength directed at Iran. There is concern that with so much military hardware in the Gulf, a small incident could escalate dangerously.

Afshar, the Iranian officer, warned the United States would not be able to control the consequences if it attacks Iran.

"The United States and its allies know that if they make any mistake in their calculations ... they will not be able to control the dimensions and limit the duration of a war," Afshar said.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader,warned this week that Western countries "must know that the Iranian nation and authorities will use all their capacities to strike enemies that attack."

The Britons were seized in an area where the boundaries of Iraqi and Iranian waters have long been disputed. A 1975 treaty set the center of the Shatt al-Arab -- the 125-mile-long channel known in Iran as the Arvand River -- as the border.

But Saddam Hussein canceled that treaty five years later and invaded Iran, triggering an eight-year war. Virtually all of Iraq's oil is exported through an oil terminal near the mouth of the channel.

Iran and the new Iraqi government have not signed a new treaty on their sovereignty over the waterway.

The seized sailors, from the British frigate HMS Cornwall, are part of a task force that maintains security in Iraqi waters under authority of the U.N. Security Council. Cornwall's commander, Commodore Nick Lambert, said he hoped the detention was a "simple mistake" stemming from the unclear border.

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نيروهاي انگليسي تجاوز به آبهاي ايران را قبول دارند


معاون فرهنگي و تبليغات دفاعي ستاد كل نيروهاي مسلح از وجود مدارك مستدل در خصوص علت دستگيري نيروهاي انگليسي در آبهاي ايران خبر داد.



به نقل از ستاد كل نيروهاي مسلح، سردار عليرضا افشار معاون فرهنگي و تبليغات دفاعي ستاد كل نيروهاي مسلح طي گفت*وگوئي، خبر دستگيري 15 نفر از نيروهاي انگليسي توسط نيروهاي دريايي سپاه در محدوده آبهاي ايران در روز جمعه سوم فروردين را تائيد كرد و افزود: افراد فوق تحت بازجوئي هستند و به تجاوز به آبهاي جمهوري اسلامي ايران اعتراف كردند.

وي با تاكيد بر هوشياري مرزداران جمهوري اسلامي ايران اظهار داشت: حادثه دستگيري نيروهاي متجاوز انگليسي در آبهاي ايران نشان داد نيروهاي مسلح كشورمان در همه ايام از آمادگي كامل براي دفاع از كشور برخوردارند.

سردار افشار تهديدات مكرر دشمنان را موجب رشد و ارتقاي توانمنديهاي دفاعي كشور دانست و افزود: آمريكا و هم پيمانان او مي*دانند كه اگر در محاسبه و تهاجم به ايران اسلامي اشتباه كنند، قادر به كنترل ابعاد آن و محدود نمودن زمان جنگ نخواهند بود. آمريكا در حمايت از رژيم صدام اميد داشت جنگ تحميلي طي 6 روز به انجام برسد اما 8 سال طول كشيد و نهايتا با وجود حمايتهاي همه جانبه*اي كه به عمل آورد كمترين موفقيت هم برايشان حاصل نشد و با مقاومت ملت ايران صدام ناكام ماند و شكست خورد.

[Shiva]

baraye man ye chizi keh jalebe ineh ageh englisha touye abhaye ma

naboodand chera az khodeshoon defa nakardand. tazeh ye helicoptere englisi

ham movazebeshoun boodeh. chetore oun kari nakardeh. man nemidoonam

chera inghadr in mamrdome englis khengan keh har chi in matbouat be

khordeshoun midan ghabool mikonand.